
A painting of what researchers believe Homo floresiensis may have looked like. Illustration:
Peter Schouten (see his amazing wildlife artwork here) by Robin McKie
It remains one of the greatest human fossil discoveries of all time. The bones of a race of tiny primitive people, who used stone tools to hunt pony-sized elephants and battle huge Komodo dragons, were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004.
Read the rest on the Guardian.
Published on February 22, 2010 13:52